*puts hands down*
Okay, I'm a bad dungeon master!
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*puts hands down*
Okay, I'm a bad dungeon master!
I love D&D
I think i'm playing 6 different games right now...or maybe it's only 5? I don't really know. :)
wow. how do you keep track of all the character sheets?
Relax Red, it takes timeQuote:
Originally Posted by RedXIII13
I have never DMed in my life, though thats gonna change, and ill be in the same boat as you. If your playing with more experienced players, ask for advice! D&D is meant as a fun, delightful, and supportive game (outside the role play that is) and good players would be happy to oblige!
DMing is tough, I've always been the one to have to do it and even I have a lot of problems with it, although those tend to be moreso when I play with rules whores.
Let's see, you are 7th level which means you can cast up to 4th level spells.
From the 4th level spell list, (Evard's) Black Tentacles is a nice way to go. Have him charge in and then use the Black Tentacles. They then grapple EVERYTHING in the area, including Mr. Gung Ho Ranger. They do a good amount of damage, but you start flinging blast spells around you should kill everything else long before he dies, allowing you to dismiss the spell and have the healer patch him up. A good admonishment here is to not get in your way.
Against a low-Will low-Fortitude type like say a Rogue enemy, Phantasmal Killer can kill it immediately, before Stabby Mctwink gets a chance.
There's also Polymorph. However, that spell's so hideously broken I suggest not inflicting it upon your poor DM except for extreme cases. There are plenty of 7 Hit Dice nasties that can tear through a mob far easier than any warrior.
From the level 3 spell list, Deep Slumber or Hold Person can take people out of the battle entirely. This still, however, allows him to brag about killing them, even if they are asleep/utterly paralyzed when he does so, due to your spell. Feel free to point it out to him though.
Those are just a few things you can do. I definitely encourage putting such players in their place, I would hate playing with someone like that and I'm still unsure of how he managed to "twink" a Ranger, since they're often considered to be more than a little nerfed mechanically, especially in pure combat situations. Especially if he's going two-weapon fighting.
One game I played was pretty funny. The party ditched me, just to be ass holes. We were going to talk to a goblin tribe fighting agaisnt a group of hob Goblins. They went to the goblins, but when they left me alone and asleep, I went the other way to the Hob Goblins, and led to a strategic counter strike against the other PC's. OF course, inevatably I also led to the destruction of the Hob Goblins and the freedom of the Goblins.
Good fun.
I paper clip them to my character pictures. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragon Mage
Seriously...
I have 2 characters per game, except for one. so that's about a dozen characters...it's a lot to keep tracl of, but i LOVE it so much! :)
what happened??Quote:
Originally Posted by RedXIII13
you don't have the DMG anyway :P
being a good DM takes time and practice and a good working knowwledge of the rules, it will come.
We play 3.5 and d20 modern usually.
The only thing consistent about my character choices is that i am ALWAYS female...cause, you know...i am female. >D
D&D ftw.
My usual choice for 3.0 is Human Cleric, for 3.5 it's Elven Sorcerer. D20 modern I am generally a Shadowjack becuase Shadowjacks = <33.
Also, my Cleric's are never really the healing type, I am more apt to rain fire down upon your head then heal you =) Or of course, Blade Barrier, or if you really piss me off Slay Living.
Right now I'm in 2+ campiagns, one as an evil Cleric, one as a good Cleric, and the D20 modern campign isnt started up yet, so I dont know waht I'll be, but as i was typing this I got a call to tell me that D&D is happeneing tonight, so I get to play with my lvl 15 Cleric, which is just awesome.
we should have an EOFF online game :P
I tried starting one awhile back but it didn't get off the ground. I'm all for it though.
and you would get the chance to play!
i tried play by post on the wizards of the coast message boards...it went ok but my players quit on me
Yes, being able to play would be good.
:)
I'm in if someone wants to set it up. We just have to set up rules for stats and what have you. Since, you know...cheating sucks. :p